The Washington critic., 1887-09-16
OUR STREET RAILWAYS.
How 10 Hanch All pnrttnns OF the
National Capital.

Tickets urC sold hy driver or conductor ~
nll ears for - cents, GOOD uu auy Hue
and Georgetown Railroad starts
AZ Georgetown, corner of iii,h street, down
Bridge street, aero ,s Rock CroeR, east alons
icunsNlNhuiu avenue, passing circle CON !
tHiniug Mills statue uf Washington: Cor. |
Ccran Gallery stat , WnrHud Navy Uopn"
mcnts; Presidents House, Lafayette square,
containing Mills equestrian statue Of An
drew Jackson. Department of Justice thnlt'
inE at FIT euth street, where transfers arp
given To- Fourteenth street Branch Fifteenth
street, past Riggs lluu.c and Treasury Dc
partmCnt: again down pcnnsylyanlu avenue
by Nillard'saud other hotels, and through
the principal business portion Of the city,
crossing seventh street west Mt Center
Market (whuTu transfers arc given to tho
seventh Street Branch, going north tuwArl
boundary street or south tO Potomac llyCri,
pnst botanical Gardens to Naval Monument
0ierr transfers are given to branch running
to Baltimore and ohio Railroad ,dcp,O AS
Cuudng south side Of Capitol HUI, cpntin-
uiur along u street south tu Pennsylvania
avenue. turning into Eighth street cast, past
the Marine Barracks to Nayy-1hri gate
Returning, same route and conditions.
Fourteenth street Branch = starts at Now
York avenue and Fifteenth street west, out
Fourteenth street to Boundary passing
Franklin Square and Thomas statue Re.
turning, same route Transfers given touud
from main or Avenue line. Connects with
ears TO Mount Pleasant every half hour.
Fare, . cents additional
Seventh street Branch-Starts at Boundary
ana runs NNt fNNln htIhHN Nllf fllN hlhllE
seventh street west. passing Mount Vernon
square, Patent and Postoilices, Oli'tel-
lows Hall, crossing pcnnsylvunin avenue
at Centre Market and city Postonce twhere
transfers are given to the main or Avenue
linc). continuing across the Mall, past the
Smithsonian Institution and National Mu-
scum, to the whnrNcs ul the Mount Vernon,
Norfolk and other ste tmcrs and Alexandria
ferry, Returning, same route.
Metropolitan Rauwuy Leaving Georgetown
where 1t makes u circuit ui West ilish
Fuyctte, Second, Dumbdriou AMI Mont
gomCry streets, passing near Hrnrseluwu
College, Academy Of the Visitation, liigh
Service Reservoir, and OAK ilill Cumricry,
over Rock Creek 10 i street north. thence
along connecticut avenue, amidst the pt'a'
tnl rcsidcnCcsuf the West End, Including
that uf the British minister; along ,rycn'
tcprth street west tn II street north, -Four
tconth street tu T., passing willard and the
Eiliit House, crossing Ninth street tWhDre
transfers are gwen to the Ninth street
BrnuciD, past the Patent and Post Olicc',
TO l1itl street, to Louisiana avenue, passing
judiciary Square, city Hall, aud Lincoln
Monument; Indiana avenue To- street, by
the Baltimore and Ohio depot To Delaware
avenue, to II street north, 10 First st@a't
east, thence along East Capitol street 10 Lin
coin PARK. Returning, same route going
west, cNcCpt aluug New Jtrzfy avenue aud
p street instead OF Indiana avcnue
Cars also leave tllc west front OF tho State,
War and Navy Departments ut convenient
Intervals, connecting with above ltuC at
Seventeenth and II streets,
Ninth street Branch Starts at northern ter
minus Of seventh street west lwhcrc II con
meets with silver Springs Branch, diyGrging
to Ninth street, thence south, passing
Mount Vernon Square, Masonic Temple,
Patent and postoiiicCs at + street lwheru
transfers are given TO main linr east or
vest, thence to Il street, passing Centre
Market and baltimore and Potomac Depot,
Sixth street 10 Missouri avenue, to Four.
and.a half street, thence to the Arsenal
gate and steamboat wharves, Potomac
River. Returning by same route.
Silver Springs Brancll.-StHrts from northern
terminus Of Ninth.strcct Branch, following
Seventh street road, past Howard lniver-
sity md SChuctzen Park, Ia entrance to
grounds of soldiers Home. Returning,
same route.
Columbia Railwny-starts at Fifteenth street
west, southeast of Treasury Department,
along New York avenue to It's intersection
with Massachusetts avenue NJ seventh
street; thence on Massachusetts, avenue to
II street north, past the Government Print
Ing OnCc to Boundary and beginning Of
Baltimore turnpike and Benning's Bridge
road. Returning, same route
North Capitol and Street Tor BclD Railroad
Starts from Maryland avenue and Four
and'a.hglf street, thence east 10 First west,
north TO q street, west to Fourth street,
north 10 7 street, west to Eleventh street,
south to street north west To Fourteenth
street, south to Ohio avenue. east to
Twelfth street, south to Virginia avenue
| and east to starting point. Returning, same
| i street.
| This line also has short connecting roads run
ming to the Centre Market, Potomac river
| steamboat wharycs, Bureau Of Engraving
| and Printing, Washington Monument and
| Eleventh and boundary.
| Anacusta misunderstanding from foot OF
Seventh street. along NJ street south,
| past navy yard gate To Twelfth street east,
| and over the huaCOstia Bridge 20 Union
town and the Government II 'spital for the
| Insane. Returning, samu route Transier~
| T. and from Avenue Line or Scycnih.Sirec'
Branch Washington and GeorgetOwn Ran
road, 3 cents.
| Hordic coaches are running from the Navy
| Yard via Pennsylvania avenue to twenty
| second and g streets northwest. Faro, Z
| cents; six tickets for - cents. llorse'caI
tickets are also received as fare.
| HerdiG cabs are run 10 any part Of the city
Fare, 20 cents, within | mile; IS cents pei
| hour for one passenger; 81 per hour ipi
| more than ono. Stands, East Capitol trOui
and Pennsylvania avenue and sevont!
street northwest.
| Providence Hospital is on the south slle ~ .
| street, between Second and Third south
| east with pretty park In front. Reached
by the avenue line of cars,